-- Hotels, 2/24/2009 6:21:00 AM
Shanghai, February 24, 2009 – HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates, designers of the prestigious new Fairmont Peace Hotel in Shanghai, are set to revive a second landmark heritage property on the city’s iconic Bund waterfront.
The world’s leading hospitality design consultancy has been appointed by Hilton Hotels Corporation to transform the former Shanghai Club at No. 2 The Bund into the Waldorf Astoria (more...)

Happily, Johnson and Robert Neper, a Perkins+Will senior associate, have avoided a sterile, institutional interior. They have also leapfrogged over the trap of the ugly, exposed-concrete tower plopped on a parking garage. Neither a stand-alone object nor a block-filling behemoth, their tower is felicitously two-faced, curving suavely on one side and appearing sharply serrated on the other.
, from which the developers leased the property, and gives (more...)

Jarmel Kizel Architects and Engineers Inc. to Provide Project Management and Interior Design Services for inVentiv Health in Somerset, N. J.
February 22, 2009
LIVINGSTON, N.J. (February 5, 2009) -- Jarmel Kizel Architects and Engineers Inc. has been selected to provide project management and interior design services for the
relocation and consolidation of inVentiv Health Inc.'s corporate offices. The company is moving to a new facility at 500 (more...)

February 26, 2009
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, the only producer of natural quartz surfaces in the U.S., today announced the opening of its new design center and distribution center serving
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Cambria's design center, located on Cook Street in
Palm Desert, Calif.
, is a 4,000-square foot showroom demonstrating innovative and cutting-edge design incorporating applications of its natural quartz surfaces. The new design center is geared toward both homeowners (more...)

The key to integrating hand-me-downs successfully, Gates says, is figuring out how they can reflect your own personality and aesthetic. She likes to mix traditional with modern. In adapting the dining furniture, she left the table as is, but transformed the chairs. First she painted them a glossy white, then she had them reupholstered in a zebra-print fabric she purchased online for just $8 a yard. The fanciful lines of the seat backs are not only (more...)

The Skyloft Penthouse was developed by Stanley D. Scott of 145 Hudson Street Associates. Stribling Marketing Associates, exclusive sales and marketing agent for The Penthouse, will soon be marketing 12 additional lofts on floors 7-10 at 145 Hudson. "The Skyloft Penthouse is a unique residence in Manhattan, combining James Carpenter's outstanding exterior design with Rogers Marvel interiors, gorgeous views and an ideal Tribeca location. As we prepare (more...)

The baby boom generation has made a big impact on everything, from changing morals to changing attitudes to changing the environment.
Boomers have long said they weren't going to grow old, or at least would age at a slower rate. Yet, the first wave has begun to enter retirement age, and while this generation is more active and healthier than the one that preceded it, time does take its toll on aging bodies. Eyes don't work as well, bodies tire more (more...)

Springfield, MO, February 21, 2009 --(
)-- “If you love to display the famous paintings or art forms in your living room, the canvas arts are made for you. The traditional (http://www.mywhitewalls.com) wall art will be very costly and are out of reach for many people. For their delight, these canvas wall arts are very cheap. Moreover unlike the traditional wall arts that require lots of care and maintenance, the art forms printed on canvas (more...)

Do you know Nora Pitaro? She might be the photographer taking pictures of your ear or designing the interior of your living room one day.
Pitaro is a visual arts student at SUNY New Paltz. She is currently in her second-year and couldn’t be happier with the direction life has taken her. As a visual arts major, Pitaro has been able to explore all different types arts, but has chosen to declare her field of concentration: photography.
Pitaro (more...)

You wouldn't think that I beams, common beams used in construction, would make comfortable pieces of furniture and, even less so, very attractive furniture. Not until you see Filippo Ghezzani's very livable and "workable" line of interior design...
At first, you get a very sleek modern overall impression of Ghezzani's designs. But there are distinct throwbacks to every design period from Art Deco to Populux to modern futurism. They are delightfully (more...)